Comments on: Netflix starts offering Internet downloads

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:02:58 +0000

As a parent of 3, I have to say I require closed-captioning. Trying to watch any show without means I’ll be rewinding wayyy to often….

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:01:41 +0000

Well, like it or not, Windows rules the market so a lot of such services end up being Windows-only, or at least Windows-first. I would think Mac users would be used to that by now. Linux users just accept they’ll have to do it themselves.

Closed captioning is a big deal that most of these services ignore. I suspect the source they use doesn’t include captions and they don’t see it as worth spending the money to do the captioning themselves. I think the best course of action is to write letters to the services directly – polite letters that lay out why it is important.

By: tenaciousdoll

tenaciousdoll — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:27:35 +0000

That’s funny, I was going to reply to his post with the very same sentiment (well, the one about closed captions, not Macs).

By: buran

buran — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:05:09 +0000

Worthless if it doesn’t do closed captions and work on Macs. But I can’t see myself wanting it even if it does, because why exactly do I want to sit at a computer when I can use my HDTV with the comfy couch instead?

When these download services realize that watching movies on a computer is lame, and that they need to make their stuff burnable to disc WITH CAPTIONS, and be available for more than just Windows users, they might get some use. Until then … why?